Comment by codemog
2 days ago
Anti-tech contrarian sentiment happens with every new technology. Someone older than you probably said the same thing about the internet.
2 days ago
Anti-tech contrarian sentiment happens with every new technology. Someone older than you probably said the same thing about the internet.
Yep. Even windows, the most widely used OS on the planet has a fringe group of contrarians still today. Amazing.
I grew up using windows and was a fan of it, but now I am a contrarian because of how shitty it has become. The fact that it is widely used is not an argument that it is good. It is widely used because of existing market share and reluctance of change by people.
Even tobacco, the second most widely used drug, has a group of contrarians still today. Amazing.
And they were right, the internet does make us dumber and less human.
True, and they were right about it when they said that. They wouldn't be right anymore, because the Internet has evolved. The same might happen to LLMs, but currently one would be right to call LLM output "slop".
Depending on the criticism at the time, they were probably wrong at the time and are correct now. There were always trolls and bad people but at least there were no mega-corp playing with people's minds.
What's sad is that there's so much of that at this site. This page in particular is a disaster, and what we're actually seeing a lot of at HN is claims that real humans are bots. And the people who make these accusations are certain of their validity.
Have you considered that this suspicion is because the number of obvious bots has exploded in the last half year or so, particularly after OpenClaw became the latest fad?
Start going to the profiles of every comment from a green account you see for a week and you’ll see how bad it is.
There will be friendly fire but unfortunately that’s to be expected when you click the top comment in a thread and realize an account has been posting 100% slop for months.
What I see is massive intellectual dishonesty, like this comment that doesn't engage with my actual points and instead attacks strawmen.
I won't comment further.